I know I’m most likely sharing the obvious, but let’s talk about how important it can be to have a great, collaborative team. Right now, I’m on inpatient internal medicine at the VA, and I really love my team. That can be vital to one’s experience. I have one upper-level PGY-2 Internal Medicine resident and […]
The Hardest Part of Inpatient Internal Medicine
I will tell you that being on inpatient internal medicine wards is just tough—it’s one of the tougher months during residency. Typically, patients are very sick. I’m at the VA, so many of them are much older and/or at the end of their life. And let me tell you, that is HARD! Besides the incredibly […]
My Makeup Routine for the Hospital: Residency Life
I know this isn’t the usual post, but I started thinking about the things that we do every day and why we do them. Right now, it’s important to hold on to some sense of normalcy from our old normal. It’s hard to uproot from what we once knew to do something completely different. Something […]
